The house of two sisters : a novel

"Essex, 1887. Clementine's ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at her father's Egyptian relic parties, which have become the talk of the town. But at one such party, the words she interprets from an unusual amulet strike fear into her heart. As her childhood games about Isis and Nephthys -- sister goddesses who protect the dead -- take on a devastating resonance in her life, and tragedy slowly consumes her loved ones, she wonders wha...